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- The complete unit below is on different types of Technical Writing:
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- This lesson is on AP Spanish Literature
- This lesson uses OREOs to teach response writing
- An idea to create a Story by multiple students (Chain Writing)
- This 5 Step Writing Program is aimed at Building Confidence
- This is an interesting lesson on Essay Writing involving a Beach Umbrella
- Another Kinesthetic Approach lesson, this one for Writing Essay Conclusions
- This is a Writing Lesson Plan called Memory Books
- This is a Process Analysis Pre-Writing Activity involving a Recipe for a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich
- Students create a Newspaper on Computers in this lesson on Typing, Writing, and Reporting
- Here's a lesson for Writing Personal Narratives and using Concept Maps
- An idea for Writing a News Story and taking on the role of Reporters
- Students Research about others and Write Biography Poems in this lesson idea
- Here is a good beginning-of-the-year lesson for introducing essay structure
- Take a fashion-forward approach to outlining with this engaging lesson
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- Students write and follow directions to assemble simple puzzles in this lesson
- Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph ideaThis lesson uses quarters to inspire response writing
- This activity allows students to move around as they proofread and edit their essays
- This conflict resolution lesson teaches Mediate, Don't Instigate
- In this newspaper lesson, students learn how to use photographs and visual design to convey messages
- To teach the value of editing your work, this teacher uses examples of how popular musicians rewrite their song lyrics
- In this interview idea, students learn about classmates while working on writing and oral presentation skills
- This kinesthetic activity is great for introducing expository and process writing
- The question "Does background music affect your writing?" is answered here
- Tinker Toys and digital cameras are used in this direction writing exercise
- Writing every related word that comes to mind is what this activity is all about
- You can create "Proofreading Pandemonium" with this fun kinesthetic activity
- In this lesson, students write a mock television interview from a pet's perspective
- This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
- In this lesson, students turn a fairy tale into a television news report
- In "Writer's Puzzle," the student composes an essay with a beginning, middle, and end piece.
- In this lesson, students will use word referents to enhance word choice and enrich vocabulary
- In this journalism lesson, students write captions and headlines for provided articles
- This personal narrative prelude lesson is on voice and topic selection
- This is a lesson on summarizing
- This lesson stresses support and elaboration in writing well-developed character trait paragraphs
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of voice in books, music and art
- In this writing exercise, students create a Memory-A-Day box as a gift for someone special
- When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant is used here to model descriptive writing
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- This calligraphy lesson is called "Write Me A Picture!"
- This is an idea for a lesson on the art of bookmaking
- Here's a lesson on mythology dioramas and set design as a career
- This outstanding 3-week multidisciplinary fresco art unit features lessons on painters, symmetry, pigment, color wheel, primary colors, Italian Renaissance, solutions, chromatography, molecules, and atoms; plus a good museum education bibliography.
- Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson
- In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
- In this "Write Like An Egyptian" idea, students draw a short story using their own hieroglyphics
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
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- This lesson is on Black History Month
- Here's a large, well-developed unit on The Renaissance:
- This idea involves Research, Writing and creating a Time Capsule covering the 20th Century
- Here are some Worksheet ideas to be used before beginning a lesson
- This lesson idea is on Ben Franklin's Virtues, and coming up with Virtues for the 21st Century
- This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
- Titled "This Is Your Life," this lesson involves a Family Tree, Interviewing, Childhood Treasures, and Writing
- This lesson is on John F. Kennedy, the 1960 election (compared to the 2000 election), and Foreign Policy
- This lesson looks at how a Bill Becomes Law
- Here are some Instructional Ideas using "Super Pop-Up Reports for American History"
- This lesson helps students Understand Cultural Differences with "The House on Mango Street"
- "Role Playing for Empathy" teaches about other Cultures and Writing Plays as well
- Here are several good ideas for a unit on the Trail of Tears
- Here's an idea that will help get students excited about geography
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- This multi-discipline lesson has students discover the geography and cultural history of an area while creating a travel journal on a budget
- This is an outstanding differentiated learning project about Ancient Egypt
- To demonstrate their Civil War knowledge, students write a diary entry or letter from the period in this lesson
- In this lesson, students will experience Tiananmen Square
- Here's an election year idea: students watch and critique televised candidate debates and then hold their own
- In this election idea, students make "T" charts of the candidate's views on issues, and vote based on "Just the Facts"
- In this holiday idea, students present a family report and collage to their family
- Students will create a picture book biography in this thorough 7-day unit
- The relevance of ancient Roman architecture, culture, and language are explored in this Pantheon lesson
- This is an African-American history research scavenger hunt
- This is a lesson on voting and holding office
- In this unit, students serve on the United Nations Human Rights Council and develop a statement on Darfur
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